Perseus & Markers: Great Tools for analyzing Propagation!

The Perseus SDR comes with a software, where you may define up to eight markers. Each of them measures the level of the signal at distances of 100 ms to 5 seconds and writes it into a CSV file. This is the base for further analyzing these data, i.e. propagation. See such an analysis of the fade-out of CHU on 3.330 kHz on top of this page.

With an (active) antenna delivering a constant antenna factor over specific range – as all professional antennas do, e.g. RF-Systems’s DX-1 – you may also switch to logging the field strength of the signal in dBµV, rather than the input level in dBm.

The first paper presents a general introduction into this concept. It has been translated into English by Guy Atkins.

The second paper, in German, goes more into the depth of analyzing the data. But it’s 13 illustrations will make it under stable also to readers who don’t understand German.